ABSTRACT

Through a series of edited interviews with new media practitioners including young web developers, programmers, artists, writers and producers, The New Media Handbook examines the essential diversity of new media by combining critical commentary and descriptive and historical accounts.

The New Media Handbook focuses upon the key concerns of practitioners and how they create their work and develop their projects - from artists to industry professionals, web designers to computer programmers.

It includes a discussion of key concepts such as digital code, information, convergence, interactivity and interface; and identifies key debates and locates the place of new media practice within contemporary culture.

The New Media Handbook includes:

  • interviews with new media practitioners
  • case studies, examples and illustrations
  • glossary of technical acronyms and key terms
  • bibliography and list of web resources.

Providing students with an essential understanding of the historical and theoretical development of the new media, The New Media Handbook really will be an invaluable study resource for all students of the media.

part |2 pages

Part I New media frameworks

chapter 1|17 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|9 pages

New media as a subject

chapter 4|10 pages

The language of new media

chapter 6|4 pages

Talking new media

chapter 8|24 pages

New media histories

part |2 pages

Part II New media practice

part |2 pages

Part III New media forms

chapter 19|8 pages

Human–computer interface

chapter 21|11 pages

Interactivity

chapter 23|7 pages

Digital code

part |2 pages

Part IV New media theory and practice

chapter 26|4 pages

Convergence

chapter 28|6 pages

Information

chapter 30|10 pages

The location of new media in culture